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Raoul Walsh's THE LAWLESS BREED is a disaster movie of a Western, spending 83 minutes careening from one tragedy or bad decision to another as it tells the story of gambler-outlaw John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson). Although the movie is colorful and has its strong points, including a spirited performance by Julia (Julie) Adams as a saloon girl who loves Hardin, it suffers from a cliched script and an...
Whazzzzup?Say what you will about how "meh" the year in actual movies was, 2008 kicked ass in the DVD division. Hence, I give myself no limits, and I dare say I miss some favorites anyway. Three categories: standard def, Blu-ray,...
CHEYENNE is an entertaining Raoul Walsh Western starring Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyman. Dennis Morgan plays Jim Wylie, a gambler forced by a sheriff to go undercover in order to discover the identity of "The Poet," an outlaw who's been robbing stagecoaches. Wylie soon meets the Poet's wife, Ann Kincaid (Jane Wyman), who may or may not want to turn in her husband to the law. Things get more complicated...
Raoul Walsh - 1952 Universal Region 1 DVD Does anyone else think that Raoul Walsh's film age better than those of Howard Hawks or John Ford? It may be revealing that while Hawks and Ford's films in the Fifties...
Hitting A New High2:30am Monday, 29 Dec 2008 Repeat G A nightclub singer dreams of being a star at the Met and ends up on an African safari. CAST: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore, Lucille Ball DIR: Raoul Walsh (1937)
It recently came to our attention that the longstanding antique truck show, held each summer for many moons at the Vermont State Fairgrounds in Rutland, is no more. Seems the organizers just didn’t have enough people to work and staff the event. That’s unfortunate, because it was a cool show with dynamite rigs in a wonderful [...]
Here it is: Fox Home Video’s follow-up to last year’s stunning “Ford at Fox” collection is perhaps even more impressive, offering major upgrades of such classics as “Sunrise” and “Seventh Heaven” while getting a number of titles back into circulation that haven’t been visible in years, if at all: “They Had to See [...]
" They Drive By Night " ( Raoul Walsh , 1940) Warner Brothers-style action-and-intrigue pot-boiler about...wild-cat truckers. The brothers Fabrini ( George Raft and Humphrey Bogart ) are partners in a truck who decide to stop working for other shipping companies and do the deals themselves. This pushes their murderous schedules to the edge and consequences determine a change of focus. An interesting...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) This nice package puts together two previously released classics - "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Cape Fear" - with four Peck films new to DVD: "Arabesque," "Mirage," "Captain Newman, M.D." and "The World in His Arms." Little more need...
Over in the left column under the category of "Events," you'll notice (once you adjust your monocle) a listing for the Manny Farber film tribute at Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater from November 14-26. It's quite a...
A new box set of six Gregory Peck films, four of them new to DVD, give me an excuse to write about Raoul Walsh once again: the highlight of the collection is a magnificent Technicolor restoration of Walsh’s underappreciated “The World in His Arms,” of 1952. The selection includes repacks of [...]
How do you portray the Mob as it really is? It's a challenge that has tested film-makers since the earliest days of the silent movie era. Gangster movies have been made for going on 100 years now; the director Martin Scorsese cites DW Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and Raoul Walsh's The Regeneration as the first forays into the genre, but others look back even further.
News: Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Murnau, Borzage and Fox DVD Collection on 9th December 2008 priced at $239.98 SRP. This 12-film collection aims to capture the iconic careers of directors F.W. Murnau and Frank Borzage...
This week in the New York Times, a handsome new box set of Errol Flynn westerns is a forceful reminder of the role Flynn played in re-establishing the A western in the 1940s. And William Keighly’s overlooked “Rocky Mountian” turns out to be a nice surprise — a compact little actioner that suggests a [...]
